Winter Competes in World XC Champs
SAINT ETIENNE ? SAINT-GALMIER, France ? University of Oregon freshman Chris Winter competed for the Ducks in the recent World Cross Country Championships, held Sat.-Sun., March 19-20.
The North Vancouver, B.C. native, placed 97th in the junior men’s 8K race (27:56) and ranked fifth on the Canadian unit that took 15th in the team race with 302 points.
Other team members included Braden Novakowski (59th, 26:51), Alex Genest (76th, 27:26), Jake Gallagher (78th, 27:28), Jeremy Fisico (89th, 27:43) and Nicholas Sunseri (112th, 28:41).
Overall in 8K race, Kenya took six of the top seven places overall, and were led by Augustine Choge (first, 23:59), Bernard Kipyego (second, 24:00) and Barnabas Kiplagat (third, 24:00).
Team-wise, the Kenyan squad won with a perfect score of 10 points, ahead of Ethiopia (second, 37) and Qatar (third, 75).
Complete 2005 meet results are available at the IAAF website at the http://iaaf.org/wxc05/results/ByEvent.html URL address.
Winter earned his berth on the Canadian unit thanks to his seventh-place finish in the national junior championships last December (25:33), and finished only 20 seconds behind the winner Jean Claude Ndwingoma.
Winter also ran in the world harrier finale in 2004 in Brussels, Belgium (87th, 27:53) and stood fourth on the 13th-place Canadian unit.
On the track, he ran the steeplechase in the World Junior Championships in 2003 (third, 2K-5:44.23) and 2004 (19th, 3K-9:00.58) ? and ran with Duck teammate Kyle Alcorn in the latter edition. Winter owns a 3,000 steeplechase best of 8:54.94 from 2004, and this season he teams with returning All-American Brett Holts and 2004 U.S. junior champ Alcorn to give the Ducks one of the nation’s top steeplechase trios on the collegiate scene.
All-Time Oregon Men’s World XC Champs Competitors (Country in () if not USA)
2005 - Chris Winter (CAN) - Junior 8K
2001 - Karl Keska (GBR) - Senior 12K, 41:38 (38th)
2001 - Nick Rogers - Senior 12K, 41:59 (47th)
2000 - Jason Hartmann - Junior 8K, 25:50 (66th
2000 - Karl Keska (GBR) - Senior 12K, 36:13 (13th)
2000 - Nick Rogers - Senior 12K, 38:14 (76th)
2000 - Dan. Das Neves (BRA) - Senior 4K, 12:58 (119th)
1995 - Dan Nelson - Senior 12K, 36:20 (82nd)
1994 - Steve Fein - Junior 8K, 27:25 (131st)
1993 - Oliver Wirz (SUI) - Junior 8K (41st)
1992 - Ken Martin - Senior 12K, 38:19 (41st)
1992 - Dan Nelson - Senior 12K, 39:23 (120th)
1991 - Dan Nelson - Senior 12K, 35:01 (28th)
1991 - Oliver Wirz (SUI) - Junior 8K (103rd)
1982 - Don Clary - Senior 8K, 23:49.0 (27th)
1981 - Chris Hamilton - Junior 8K, 22:21 (6th)
1980 - Ken Martin - Senior 12K, 37:53 (23rd)
1980 - Don Clary - Senior 12K, 38:23 (43rd)
1979 - Jim Hill - Junior 8K, 23:37 (12th)
1976 - Alberto Salazar - Junior 8K, 24:36 (5th)
1975 - Don Clary - Junior 8K, 21:38 (5th)
1974 - Matt Centrowitz - Junior 8K, 21:48 (5th)
All-Time Oregon Women’s World XC Champs Competitors (Country in () if not USA)
2002 - Milena Glusac - Senior 8K, 28:18 (23rd)
2001 - Lisa (Karnopp) Nye - Senior 4K, 16:13 (47th)
2001 - Annette Peters - Senior 8K, 31:19 (53rd)
1999 - Tara Struyk (CAN) - Junior 4K, 24:03 (61st)
1998 - Liz Wilson - Senior 8K, 27:23 (30th)
1998 - Tara Struyk (CAN) - Junior 4K, 22:06 (65th)
1996 - Marie Davis - Junior 4K, 14:45 (37th)
1996 - Liz Wilson - Senior 6K, 21:49 (48th)
1996 - Lucy Nusrala - Senior 6K, 24:31 (116th)
1995 - Liz Wilson - Senior 6K, 21:50 (62nd)
1994 - Lucy Nusrala - Senior 6K, 21:40 (39th) -
1994 - Liz Wilson - Senior 6K, 21:48 (55th)
1993 - Marie Davis - Junior 4K, 16:17 (86th)
1993 - Annette Peters - Senior 6K, 20:37 (21st)
1992 - Annette Peters - Senior 6K, 22:13 (30th)
1992 - Lisa Karnopp - Senior 6K, 23:10 (89th)
1991 - Melody Fairchild - Junior 4K, 14:30 (3rd)
1991 - Annette Peters - Senior 6K, 21:10 (19th)
1990 - Melody Fairchild - Junior 4K, 14:37 (12th)
1989 - Annette Hand (Peters) - Senior 6K, 23:22 (25th)
1985 - Kathy Hayes - Senior 6K, 15:54 (16th)
1977 - Eryn Forbes - Senior 5K, 19:04 (54th)
